Saddle



(No Model.)

O. TABER.

SADDLE.

No. 424,626. Patented Apr. 1,1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORRIN TABER, OF VILTON, ASSIGNOR TO THE NASHUA SADDLERY HARD- VARE COMPANY, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,626, dated April 1, 1890. Appiicaan ma December 3,1889. serai No. 332,431. cromada To @ZZ whom, it may concern: and the seat also has a hole through it to re- Be it known that I, ORRIN TABER, of \Vilceive a bolt b3. The tree c has holes through 45 ton, county of Hillsborough, State of New it to receive the lugs co2 of the hook and also Hampshire, have invented an Improvement the bolt h3. As herein shown, conical nuts e 5 in Saddles, of which the following description, are tu rned on thebolt h3 and also on the screwn connection with the accompanying drawthreaded lug a2, said nuts fitting counter ing, is a specificatiolnlike letters on the drawsinks or tapering sockets formed in the un- 5o ing representing like parts. der side of the tree c, said conical nuts being In another application, Serial No. 321,725, prevented from turning easily by the friction xo filed August 23, 1889, by Orrin Taber and produced bycontact with the tree. Asteady- Hamilton F. Low, a saddle is shown comprispin CZ is formed on the upper side of the tree, ing a saddle-tree, seat, and checkrein-hook, which passes up through a hole, as ZJ', for in- 55 and means for securing the parts together, stance, in the seat h and into a socket formed and a steady-pin on the hook, which passes in the under side of the checkrein-hook on, I5 down through the seat to prevent rotation of said pin d serving to prevent the checkreinthe hook. As a means for securing the hook hook from rotating when the nut e is tightto the seat and tree, a lug was formed intecned. 6o gral with the hook, which passed down The steady-pin d may be formed on the through the seat and tree and was externally tree by casting or otherwise, as desired. 2o screvwthreaded to receive a nut.. In practice I claim@ I ind it is somewhat diiicult to turn the In a saddle, the combination, witha checkthread on the lug, owing to the location of reirrhook having a socket in its under side 65 the steady-pin, and to cheapen the coustrucand also an externally-screw-threaded lug 0,2 tion of the saddle as much as possible I have adjacent to said socket, of a seat having open- 2 5 herein arranged the steady-pin on the tree, ings therein, and a tree, the seat being interwhich passes up through the seat and enters posed between the hook and tree, the said lug a hole or socket formed in the hook, thereby u? passing through said seat and tree, a nut 7o entirely removing the steady-pin from the adapted to be held on the screw-threaded end hook, so that it may be held by a suitable of t-he said lug and bearing against the under 3o clutch and the lug thereon screwthreaded side of the tree to constitute a fastening to rapidly and without inconvenience. hold. the hook, seat, and tree together, and a This invention therefore comprehends a steadypin d, formed on the upper side of the 75 tree havingasteady-pin formed integral with tree and passing up through a hole in the it, which passes up through the seat and into seat and entering the socket in the hook, and 35 the hook, combined with a fastening for the a bolt h3 as an additional fastening for the hook, seat, and tree, which consists of a lug parts, substantially as described. formed on the hook and a nut thereon. In testimonyv whereof I have signed my 8o The drawing shows in section and partial name to this specification in the presence of elevation a saddle embodying this invention. two subscribing witnesses.

4o The checkreimhook a has formed on its un- ORRIN TABER.

der side a lug a?, which is made quite long Iitnessesz and is externally screw-threaded. The seat h BERNICE .I N OYES, has an opening h through it for the lug a2, FREDERICK L. EMERY. 

